Interview With Reddit Troll, 'Violentacrez' (video)

On the one hand I feel bad for his wife, she's suffering over something she had nothing to do with. Her husband lost his job and now she has no health care insurance.<p>On the other hand, this guy was posting a TON of offensive, downright disgusting content. He was stupid enough to share his personal information with someone online, that's his fault.<p>Doing stupid shit online + sharing who you are in real life (even to a single person) = you're going to have a bad time.

It seems like he is only remorseful because he got caught. And as Cooper pointed out: he only mentions the negative impact on himself and his family (what about the girls whose photos he posted?) and tries to shift most of the responsibility to Reddit.

I'm not blaming Reddit for what this guy posted, but the truth is that Reddit encouraged this kind of posts (they gave him an award!). Let's see how this affect reddit in the future.

Why would this man agree to interviewed? Does he like the attention? Does he actually regret his actions? Does he like when others think of him in disgust? His intentions here are suspect to me. Possibly one more troll?

this whole thing has really turned me off reddit. i blocked it in my /etc/hosts and my productivity has gone way up. also, makes me appreciate the efforts of HN to keep things civil and intelligent - even if it means a lot of my posts and comments go nowhere.

I really wish people would stop posting about this most recent bout of reddit drama on HN. Are people not noticing that every article so far has been deleted?

And he instantly regrets it:<p>"CNN was a huge mistake, which I will not repeat." <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11pka1/violentacrez_on_cnn/c6onip4" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11pka1/violentacrez_on...</a>

"He has a gift for pushing buddons"